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Chapter 36
Framing the 22nd Dynasty
This chapter and the next are devoted to the 22nd Dynasty. This
chapter reflects
Manethos framework; the following chapter completes the
reconstruction. Shoshenq I is the first 22nd Dynasty king. He began
his reign with a five-year co-
regency with Psusennes II. The Dynasty has distinctives that aid
its construction.
Manethos records for the 22nd Dynasty have suffered damage and
loss in transmission, so only 3 of its 11 kings (9 according to
Manetho) are named. Nevertheless, the
information it contains is a valuable aid to chronology.1 Nile
Level Texts found on the
quay wall of the temple of Amun at Karnak record the maximum
height of the Nile in
various kings regnal years. The analyses of these texts help
define the length of some rulers reigns. Lunar dates taken from
records of inductions of priests at Amun festivals, and the
enthronement of two Apis bulls also assist. Lunar dates from the
23rd and 25th
Dynasties and important synchronisms between the 22nd, 23rd,
24th, and 25th Dynasties
anchor the reigns of eight kings. The invasion of the Nubian
king, Piye, in his 20th year,
causing the submission of Egypts kings and kinglets, brought the
22nd, 23rd, and 24th Dynasties virtually to an end.
In earlier years, Heqakheperre Shoshenq was known as Shoshenq
II, and
Hedjkheperrre Shoshenq Siese was known as Shoshenq VII. The
numbering of
Shoshenq IIb, Shoshenq IIc, and Shoshenq VIa does not imply
acceptance of their
existence by all scholars.
Kings of the 22nd Dynasty
The order of the kings of the 22nd Dynasty, as recognized by
most scholars at the
present time, are shown in Table 36.1 (early period) and Table
36.2 (later period).
Because Manetho has totals for the early and later periods, a
line in the table for this
framework figure is provided. In keeping with my method, lunar
anchor periods or year
periods are noted.
Table 36.1: Early period of 22nd Dynasty kings with anchor
points
King Regnal
years
Dates
reigned Lunar anchor points or year periods BCE
Shoshenq I Yr 2, Shoshenq I justified at feast III 3t 14; new
moon III 3t 13 in 996.
Yr 5, weresh feast IV prt 25; new moon IV prt 20 in 994
Osorkon I
Yr 1 bequests beginning on I mw 7 is new moon in 957 (and
lasting 3 yrs 3 mths and 16 days till Yr 4 on IV mw 25). Yr 3
induction of Hor, II 3t 14; new moon II 3t 11, 954
Shoshenq IIa NLT 16 appears to give him 5 yrs
Takeloth I Serapeum stela with 14 yrs and NLT 18 with 13 or 14
yrs is probably his
Osorkon II 125 years (emended from Manethos subtotal [1]25 ends
in 872, last year of
Osorkon IIs reign
Manetho Total
NLT = Nile Level Texts.
1 These are found in Manetho (trans. W.G. Waddell; Loeb
Classical Library 350; London: William
Heinemann Ltd. and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1940).
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Table 36.2: Later period of 22nd Dynasty kings with anchor
points
King Regnal
years
Dates
reigned Lunar anchor points or year periods BCE
Takeloth II Starts to reign 125 years after 997.
11th yr, Amun feast new moon on I mw 11 in 860
Shoshenq III
Yr 28 installation of Apis bull in Yr 28 on II 3t 1 date of full
moon in 810. This Apis bull died after 26 years in the second yr of
Pimay in 784.
Yr 39 Amun feast on I mw 26 on third day after new moon on I mw
24 in 800
Shoshenq IV None known. A Yr 10 attested
Pami or Pimay In second yr, 785/784, Apis bull died that was
installed 26 years earlier in
28th yr of Shoshenq III in 810
Shoshenq V Yr 12 installation of Apis bull on IV prt 4 full moon
date in 769
Osorkon IV
Present at Leontopolis at invasion of Egypt in Piyes 20th year
in 730. End of dynasty in 730 is 142 years from Takeloths accession
in 872, and 267 years from beginning of dynasty in 998/997
Manetho Total
The previous chapter canvassed the various opinions and problems
with this list.
Some year periods were taken into account, but not all. Relevant
lunar anchor points
have not figured to the extent they should have in the
discussion of most Egyptologists in
recent decades. Our procedure will encompass all available
evidence.
New Kings Named Shoshenq Several new kings with the name
Shoshenq have been identified, besides those
already well known, raising questions where they might fit into
the chronology. An
international conference held in Leiden in 2007 to discuss the
Libyan Period agreed upon a temporary numbering system for these
kings who are distinguishable by their
prenomens.
Table 36.3: Numbering of 22nd Dynasty kings according to
prenomens
Prenomen Identifying King number
Hedjkheperre Shoshenq Shoshenq I
Heqakheperre Shoshenq Shoshenq IIa
Tutkheperre Shoshenq Shoshenq IIb
Maakheperre Shoshenq Shoshenq IIc
Usermaatre Shoshenq Sibast Shoshenq III
Hedjkheperrre Shoshenq Sibast Shoshenq IV
Aakheperre Shoshenq Shoshenq V
Table 36.4: King names from 23rd Dynasty (or the so-called Upper
Egyptian collateral line)
Prenomen Identifying King number
Usermaatre Meryamun Shoshenq Shoshenq VI
Hedjkheperrre Shoshenq Siese Shoshenq VIa2
Manethos Lists of the 22nd Dynasty Kings Africanus attributes
nine kings to the 22nd Dynasty, whereas Eusebius and the
Armenian give only the three names found in all three lists.3
They are set out in Table
36.5.4
2 O. Kaper, The Libyan Period in Egypt, EA 32 (2008) 38-39. The
proceedings were published in The
Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the
21st-24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a
Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007 (eds. G.P.F.
Broekman, R.J. Demare, and O.E.
Kaper; Leiden: NINO, 2009). 3 Manetho, 158-61.
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Table 36.5: The nine kings of Bubastus in the 22nd Dynasty
(fragment 60 [from
Syncellus] according to Africanus)
Number Kings and no. of years reigned
1 Sesnchis, for 21 yr
2 Osorthn, for 15 yr
3, 4, 5 Three other kings, for 25 [29] yr
6 Takelthis, for 13 yr
7, 8, 9 Three other kings, for 42 yr
Total: 120 yr
Table 36.6 shows the two versions of 22nd Dynasty kings from
Eusebius
(fragment 61a [from Syncellus] and the Armenian (the latter
fragment 61b).
Table 36.6: The three kings of Bubastus in the 22nd Dynasty (via
Syncellus:
according to Eusebius [fragment 61a], and the Armenian [fragment
61b])
Number Kings and no. of years reigned
1 Sesnchsis, for 21 yr
2 Osorthn, for 15 yr
3 Takelthis, for 13 yr
Total: 49 yr
The two shorter versions have deleted the two references to
three other kings for kings three, four, and five; and seven,
eight, and nine. The totals, 120 and 49 years,
respectively, are secondary additions gained from adding up the
numbers. Presumably,
the original list once recorded all the kings names and their
regnal years. Africanus has the best preserved copy.
The first two kings, Sesnchis and Osorthn, are recognizable as
Shoshenq I and
Osorkon I. Then the list appears to indicate that kings three,
four, and five reigned
collectively for 25 [29] years.5 Then king no. 6, Takelothis, is
identified as Takeloth II,
followed by kings seven, eight, and nine, who apparently reigned
collectively for 42
years.
Referring to this list in 1986, Kitchen wrote, The surviving
text of Manethos Epitome very quickly passes from closest accuracy
[in the 21st Dynasty] into a state of
corruption and over-abbreviation. The one indisputable datum is
the first given: 21 years
for Shoshenq I, directly comparable with the Year 21 of his
Silsila stela ordering the
works at Karnak that were never finished.6 Kitchen then presents
a table comparing the kings and reigns he assigns to the
22nd Dynasty, and gives his interpretation of Manethos figures.
He suggests that the total for the first three other kings could be
emended from 29 to 49 years and the second entry of three other
kings for 42 years is totally corrupt, because the irreducible
minimum is 95 years.7 He asserts, It is clear that (except for
Shoshenq I) the surviving text of Manetho does not begin to do
justice to the 22nd Dynasty as it is
now known to us. 8
4 The Book of Sothis is found in Manetho. It also gives the
three kings. See further explanation later in this
chapter, pp. 523ff.. 5
The [29] has been inserted to bring the total to the stated 120
years, which otherwise amounts to only 116
years.
6 K.A. Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100650
BC), (3rd edition, 1986, Warminster:
Aris & Phillips Ltd.) 450 418. 7
Ibid., 450 418.
8 Ibid.
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Three Other Kings Convey Regnal Data Allowing for transmission
error, the numbers can be explained quite plausibly,
and provide very important data in the establishment of the
chronology for the 22nd
Dynasty. It becomes obvious that Manethos twice given three
other kings for a total of 25 and 42 years, respectively, are
insufficient to represent the regnal years for kings
three to five and seven to nine. For example, in TIP, Kitchen
assigned 2425 years to Osorkon II,
9 and his reign takes up the 25 years assigned to the three
other kings,
leaving no years available for kings three and four. This
indicates that the numbers as
they are now, are too low. They must have been greater once. If
the two numbers are
added they amount to 67 years.
According to our analysis, the 22nd Dynasty began in 997 BCE.
Kitchen, in
2006, proposed the dates 730728 for Piyes 20th year invasion of
Egypt.10 If the dynasty ended in 730, there were 267 years to the
22nd Dynasty, which gives us a clue
as to the correct numbers for the twice-stated three other
kings. These have wrongly been interpreted to refer to just the
kings whose names and
regnal years have not been preserved, when originally the years
must have referred to
sub-totals for two halves of the dynasty. The emended subtotals
provided for the 22nd
Dynasty indicates it was divided into two periods; its first
lasting for [1]25 years and its
second for [1]42 years, giving 267 years and the dates 997872
BCE and 872730 BCE, respectively.
Manetho regarded the first king of the second period as a
Takelothis, who can be
identified with Takeloth II, son and successor of Osorkon II,
the latter recognized as the
last king of the first period. The disruption to the dynasty at
about the time of the reigns
of Osorkon II and Takeloth II is supported by the
politicoreligious situation known to have arisen between the ruling
family in Tanis in the north, and the priests of Amun at
Thebes in the south, as related in The Chronicle of Prince
Osorkon.11
Referring to fragmentation during the 22nd Dynasty, Kitchen
wrote in 1996: The first real crack appears when Harsiese obtains a
shadow-kingship at Thebes under
Osorkon II. Theban disenchantment grew apace under the regime of
Takeloth II and
Prince Osorkon, leading first to the emergence of rival
Theban-based high priests.
Shoshenq III proved unable to retain a unified monarchy. A
probable sibling Pedubast I
split off; founding what Manetho calls the 23rd Dynasty.12
The 23rd Dynasty coexisted with the 22nd Dynasty until they both
came to an
end with the invasion of the 25th Dynasty king, Piye, ca. 730
BCE. Manethos numbers for the 22nd Dynasty can be credibly
understood when the correct figures of 125 years
and 142 years are reinstated, giving 267 years to the
dynasty
Nile Level Texts
During the 22nd to 26th Dynasties, the height of the Nile flood
was recorded at
Thebes in various years of most of the kings reigns. These
records, known as the Nile Level Texts, were engraved on the quay
wall of the temple of Amun at Karnak covering
a distance of about eight meters. The majority of the texts give
the name of the king and
his regnal year, though one group of texts omits the king and
gives the name of the High
Priest instead. Sometimes the name of another concurrently
reigning king of another
9 Ibid., 108 87; idem, The Strengths and Weaknesses of Egyptian
Chronology A Reconsideration,
und L 16 (2006) 297-300. 10
Idem, Strengths and Weaknesses, 294, 296, 297, 301.
11 See Ricardo A. Caminos, The Chronicle of Prince Osorkon
(Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum,
1958) 172-80.
12 Kitchen, TIP (3rd ed.), xxxii-xxxiii.
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dynasty is given, providing an important synchronism. A few
times, the name of the
kings mother, as well as various other items of information, are
added. Some kings have more than one text.
The texts of the 22nd and 23rd Dynasties number from 1 to 29 and
from 43 to 45,
and are to the left of the engravings for the 25th and 26th
Dynasties numbering from 30
to 42 inscribed on the right-hand section of the wall. The
latter are more extensive in
their details.
The Nile Level Texts were published briefly by Georges Legrain
in 1896, giving
a diagram of their positioning on the quay wall and a commentary
on the texts.13
Many
of the texts were damaged and in various stages of illegibility,
especially Nos. 15 and 44,
which are known only from Legrains publication, but their place
on the quay wall is not recorded.
14
In 1953, Jrgen von Beckerath visited the quay and re-collated
the texts. He
discovered that Legrains arrangements of the texts were not
numbered in their historical order.
15 Von Beckerath gives a commentary on the texts and a
hieroglyphic
representation of each.16
In 2002, Gerard Broekman provided a full analysis of the texts
of the 22nd and
23rd Dynasties, including their position on the quay wall, their
orthography, their
structure, a commentary on the individual texts focusing on the
chronological issues, a
presentation of the hieroglyphic inscriptions arranged in
groups, and his conclusions.17
He noted that consecutive numbers do not necessarily indicate
chronological
continuity, nor does proximity, though there is a general
recognition that texts belonging
to one king may have been loosely grouped together, with the
texts of later kings
sometimes coming between them. It is not known why the Nile
Level Texts were
engraved in some years and not others.18
Two Versions of Nile Flood A particularly important point
concerns the orthography. As Broekman explains,
the structure of the Nile Level Texts show two different
versions for the words p3 hcpj
the Nile flood appearing at the beginning of each text.19
Version One has three alternative hieroglyphic renderings for the
word h
cpj, distinct from Version Two written
only one way. Broekman concluded that texts having Version One
belong to kings who
reigned before the 39th year of Shoshenq III, at which time the
texts change from
Version One to Version Two.20
The only exception is Text No. 5 giving year three of
13
J. von Beckerath, The Nile Level Records at Karnak and their
Importance for the History of the Libyan
Period (Dynasties XXII and XXIII), JARCE 5 (1966) 43-55; G.
Legrain, Textes graves sur le quai de Karnak, ZS 34 (1896) 111-21.
14
G.P.F. Broekman, The Nile Level Records of the Twenty-Second and
Twenty-Third Dynasties in
Karnak: A Reconsideration of their Chronological Order, JEA 88
(2002) 163, 174. Von Beckerath could not find Nos. 15 and 44 on the
quay wall, but he found traces of inscriptions that he could not
identify
(Nile Level Records, 43 n. 9). 15
Von Beckerath, Nile Level Records, 43. 16
Ibid., 49-55. 17
Broekman, Nile Level Records, 165.
18 Ibid., 181.
19 Ibid., 166.
20 Kitchen says the difference in spellings of Hapi may be the
product of varying scribes, rather than
chronological fashions; hence they are not definitive proof
without other evidence (Strengths and Weaknesses, 299).
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Osorkon III, rendered in Version One.21
He suggests that this can probably be accounted
for by the transitional nature of the orthography at this
time.22
The kings named and represented by Version One are Shoshenq I
(No. 1),
Osorkon I (No. 2) and Osorkon II (Nos. 8, 9, 11, 12, and 14).
Also reigning before
Shoshenq III were Shoshenq IIa, (questionable Shoshenq IIb and
IIc), Takeloth I and
Takeloth II, but these kings names do not appear. However, there
are some texts that do not name the king but do give the name of
the High Priest, while some texts are illegible,
and these kings may have been represented by these texts.
Broekman notes that from the time of Osorkon II the kings names
became more complex with the optional addition of Si Ese to the
names of the kings of Upper Egypt,
which was subsequently extended to add the epithet
Netjerheqawast (God, ruler of
Thebes), whereas kings of Lower Egypt added Si-Bast and the
epithet Netjerheqaon
(God, ruler of Heliopolis).
Broekman regards Si Ese and Si-Bast as indicative of dynastic
affiliation when
the 22nd and 23rd Dynasties coexisted, and the epithets also
indicating the additional
place of origin of the objects on which they occur.23 These
distinctions are used by Broekman in seeking to identify kings who
used the same prenomen and nomen. While
Broekman favors the idea of a Theban 23rd Dynasty using the
epithet Si-Ese, Kitchen
argues that the epithet does not indicate that there was a 23rd
Dynasty headed by
Takeloth II residing at Thebes.24
In 2009, Kitchen asserted that Son of Isis was used for new
rulers in Leontopolis, and that it corresponded to the Si-Bast
epithets used by their cousins in Bubastis and Tanis, arguing again
that the epithet did not indicate a Theban 23rd Dynasty.
25 This difference of view affects the subsequent analysis of
the
Nile Level Texts.
A schematic diagram of the position of the texts on the quay
wall is provided
below (Figure 36.1) as presented by Broekman. The approximate
length of the texts is
indicated by the distances between the square brackets. The
different writings of the
numbers indicate the several groups in which the texts are
clustered in Broekmans paper:
26
21
Broekman notes Nile Level Text No. 3 with Version Two,
previously thought to belong to Shoshenq I,
but now that the significance of Version Two has been observed,
combined with other criteria, he now
attributes this text to Shoshenq II (Nile Level Records, 164,
167, 169, 174-78). See further discussion below. 22
Ibid., 167. 23
Ibid., 168. 24
In 2006, Kitchen argued that, The epithet Si-Ese (even as
studied by Muhs) proves absolutely nothing
about the location of kings or dynasties, noting that it can
belong to kings of both the 22nd and 23rd Dynasties. (Emphasis
his). (Strengths and Weaknesses, 298). The reference to Muhs is:
Brian Muhs, Partisan Royal Epithets in the late Third Intermediate
Period and the Dynastic Affiliations of Pedubast I and Iuput II,
JEA 84 (1998) 220-23. 25
Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period: An Overview of Fact
& Fiction, in G.P.F. Broekman, R.J.
Demare, O.E. Kaper (ed.), The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical
and Cultural Studies into the 21st-24th
Dynasties: Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University,
25-27 October 2007 (Leiden: Nederlands
Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (2009), 176; see also 199.
26
Broekman, Nile Level Records, 165.
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Figure 36.1: Distribution of the Nile Level Texts.
KEY:
(Between rounded brackets): the earliest texts;
Bold: the sons of Osorkon I;
Italics: the texts of Osorkon II;
Underlined: the time of Shoshenq III and The Chronicle of Prince
Osorkon;
Bold, underlined: the texts of Osorkon III and his son Takeloth
III;
Italics, underlined: the remaining texts.
Table 36.7 and Table 36.8 give a summary of the information
provided by
Broekman,27
and is arranged in a chronological format within the 22nd and
23rd
Dynasties to give greater clarity to some issues discussed
below.
Table 36.7: Nile Level Text (NLT) data for the 22nd Dynasty,
according to
Broekman
Order and
identification of
kings
King named
No.
of
NLT
Regnal
year
Version of
hapi Nile Flood
HP/other comment
1. Shoshenq I
Hedjkheperre Setepenre
Shoshenq Meryamun =
Shoshenq I
1 6 1
1 & 2 have identical structure;
2 cartouches, prenomen &
nomen shown
2. Osorkon I
Sekhemkheperre Setepenre
Osorkon Meryamun =
Osorkon I
2 12 1 See above
3. Shoshenq IIa Name not given. [Reign of
Shoshenq II?] 16 5 1 HP Iuwelot, son of Osorkon [I]
Name not given. [Reign of
Shoshenq II or Takeloth I?] 20
Not
legible
HP not legible, wish for eternal
life added to the name of King
Osorkon
Name not given. [Reign of
Shoshenq II or Takeloth I?] 21
Not
legible Not legible HP not legible
4. Takeloth I Name not given. [Reign of
Takeloth I?] 17 8 1
HP Smendes III, son of
Osorkon
Name not given. [Probably
reign of Takeloth I] 18 13 or 14 1
HP Smendes III, son of
Osorkon
Name not given. [Reign of
Takeloth I?] 19
Not
legible 1
HP Smendes III, son of
Osorkon
27
Ibid., 163-78.
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5. Osorkon II Osorkon II 8 12 1
Nos. 8, 9, 11, 12 are one unit; 2
cartouches, prenomen &
nomen shown
Osorkon II 9 12 1 Possibly correcting Nile level
of No. 8
Osorkon II 11 21 1 As above
Osorkon II 12 22 1 As above
Usimare Setapenamun =
Osorkon II 14 29 1
First use of prenomen Usimare
Setapenamun; only one
cartouche
Unknown 15 Not
legible Not legible
2 cartouches; nothing legible.
Short text
6. [Takeloth II]
[Takeloth IIs reign coming between Osorkon II and
Shoshenq III not
represented by NLTs unless
on now illegible texts, e.g.
No. 15]
[?]
7. Shoshenq III Shoshenq III 23 6 1 HP Harsiese B
Shoshenq III / Pedubast [I] 24 Shq. 12 /
Ped. 5 1 HP Harsiese B
Shoshenq [III] 22 39 2 HP Osorkon (Prince Osorkon)
HP = High Priest; Ped. = Pedubast; Shq. = Shoshenq.
Table 36.8: Nile Level Texts (NLT) data for the 23rd Dynasty,
according to
Broekman
Order and
identification of
kings
King named
No.
of
NLT
Regnal
year
Version of
hapi Nile Flood
HP/other comment
1. Pedubast Pedubast [I] / Iuput [I] 26 Ped. 16
= Iu. 2 1 2 kings, no HP named
Pedubast [I] 28 Ped. 18 1 HP Harsiese B
Pedubast [I] 27 Ped. 19 1 HP Harsiese B
Shoshenq [III] / Pedubast
[I] 29 Ped. 23 1 HP Takeloth
2. Shoshenq VI
Usimare Meryamun
Shoshenq Meryamun =
Shoshenq VI
44 Not
legible Not legible
A HPs name illegible. Text most closely resembles No. 25
Usimare Meryamun
Shoshenq Meryamun =
Shoshenq VI
25 6 1 HP Takeloth
3. Osorkon III
Usimare Setapenamun
Osorkon Meri amun Si-Ese
= Osorkon III
5 3 1
Osorkons mother in cartouche. Whose mother is the Chief Queen
[]28 Wish for eternal life follows name of king
Osorkon
Usimare Osorkon [III] (no
epithet) 6 5 2
Nos. 6 & 7 have same structure,
and Whose mother was the Chief Queen Kamama
Meryt-mut.29 Is in cartouche. Similar structure to No. 5
Usimare Osorkon [III] (no
epithet) 7 6 2 See No. 6
4. Takeloth III
Osorkon Si-Ese
Netjerheqawast (god, ruler
of Thebes) and Takeloth
Si-Ese Netjerheqawasat
13
Osks Year 28
= Taks Year 5
2 5-year co-regency indicated by
synchronism
Takeloth Meryamun Si-Ese
= Takeloth III 4 6 2 Whose mother is Tentsai30
Usimare Meryamun 10 5, 6, 13 2 One cartouche; same structure
28
Kitchen, TIP, 92 73. 29
Ibid., 93 74. 30
Ibid., 95 76.
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= Takeloth III? or 14 as Nos. 4 & 43
5. Rudamun Meryamun 43 3 2 1 cartouche; 1 nomen
6. Shoshenq
VIIa
Hedjkheperre Setepenre
Shoshenq Si-Ese
Meryamun
= Shoshenq VIIa
[SAK 33, p. 7576]
3 5 2
Two cartouches, prenomen &
nomen; same structure as No.
45
Meryamun (in nomen
cartouche): Shoshenq VII? 45
17, 18
or 25 2
Same structure as No. 3, but no
part of prenomen is legible
HP = High Priest; Iu = Iuput; Osk = Osorkon; Ped = Pedubast; Tak
= Takeloth.
22nd Dynasty Kings
Manetho identifies the 22nd Dynasty rulers as kings of Bubastus
(Bubastis).
These Delta kings were of Libyan descent, said to be descendants
of people captured by
Ramesses II and III.31
The genealogy of a Memphite priest named Pasenhor found on a
stela from the Serapeum, lists the following sequence of kings:
Shoshenq I, Osorkon I,
Takelot I, and Osorkon II,32
which helps to confirm the order of these kings of the early
period known from other sources, though it does not include
Shoshenq IIa.
Shoshenq I (Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq Meryamun)
Shoshenq I was discussed in chapter 34 relative to the reign of
Psusennes II.
Shoshenq Is father was Nimlot [A], brother to Osorkon the Elder,
third-to-last king of the 21st Dynasty, and his mother was
Tentshepeh [A].
33 Shoshenqs wife, Karomama,
bore him his first son, Osorkon (to become Osorkon I).34
Osorkon married Psusennes IIs daughter, Matkare.
35
Psusennes II had no heir, so Shoshenq I, after a five-year
co-regency, succeeded
him to become the first king of the 22nd Dynasty. The Larger
Dakhla Stela dates a land-
register dispute to the 19th year of Psusennes II as well as a
weresh festival date on IV
prt 25 in the fifth year of Shoshenq I, referred to earlier.
These both date to the year 994,
so Shoshenq Is first year dates to 997 BCE (see the fuller
explanation in chapter 34 pages 477480, and note the explanation of
dates below the following table).
Shoshenq Is second regnal year also has a date in the Karnak
Priestly Annals fragment No. 4, noted in the previous reference in
chapter 34, which begins a paragraph
with the notation: Regnal Year 2, 3rd month of Akhet, day 17, of
the Great chief of the M, Shoshe(n)q, justified.36 The date of III
3t 13 in Shoshenq Is second regnal year coincides with a new moon
day, seen in Caspersons Table 36.9 for the year 995 (996 BCE). The
date of III 3t 14 falling on the day of conjunction is likely to be
the day that the Egyptians recognized as the first day of the lunar
month. (It is not unusual for the
Egyptian date to fall on the day of conjunction rather than on
the previous day of the new
moonas determined by the computer computations).
31
Ibid., 244-45 206, 285 239. 32
Ibid., 105-106 85, Table 19 p. 488; Jansen-Winkeln, Third
Intermediate Period, in Ancient Egyptian
Chronology (eds. E. Hornung, R. Krauss, D.A. Warburton; Leiden
and Boston: Brill, 2006) 236-37. 33
For family connections see Kitchen, TIP, 111-16 90. 34
Ibid., 541 445. 35
Ibid., 60-61 49. 36
Ibid., 288 242.
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Table 36.9: Shoshenq Is second year 995 (new moon listing for
995)
Tanis; Lat. 31.0, Long. 31.8; visibility coefficients: c1 =
11.5, c2 = 0.008
Julian Gregorian Egyptian DoW ToD Morning visibility
Yr Mo D Yr Mo D Yr Mo D 2 1 0
995 6 11 995 6 2 1787 2 14 1 9:27 5:04 175 5:04 73 5:03 4
995 7 11 995 7 2 1787 3 14 3 1:07 4:59 158 4:59 70 4:59 7 995 8
9 995 7 31 1787 4 13 4 17:11 5:11 240 5:11 143 5:12 55
995 9 8 995 8 30 1787 5 13 6 8:47 5:35 215 5:36 119 5:37 21
DoW = day of week; ToD = time of day.
Available information makes no mention of a new moon on III 3t
17, but as an auspicious occasion for Shoshenq I when he was
justified, it would be appropriate for a feast falling over five
days to include the day of a new moon. It is consistent with
the
date of III prt 10 + x for the 13th year of Psusennes II on
November 8 in 998, and the weresh feast date in Shoshenq Is fifth
year on IV prt 25 in 993, which equates to 19 December, falling
five days after a new moon on the 20th.
37
Since Shoshenq Is second year date fell in 996, his first year
had to begin sometime before III 3t 17, which equates to 14 July in
997 BCE. However, the beginning of his fifth year includes the
weresh feast date on IV prt 25 or 19 December in
993 (994 BCE) placing his first year in 997/996 (998/997 BCE).
The dating data means that the accession of Shoshenq I took place
before IV prt
25, the latter equating to 20 December in 998 BCE. I return to
this when discussing the
accession of Osorkon I, below, where it seems that Shoshenq Is
co-regency started fairly late in the year 998 BCE, possibly on the
anniversary of Psusennes IIs own accession. With Shoshenq Is
accession occurring late in 998 BCE, and most of his first year
falling in 997, the 125 years of the early period of the 22nd
Dynasty (the [1]25
years of Manetho) must have ended in 872 BCE.
The following 142 years for the later period would have ended in
730 BCE, a
date associated with the invasion of the Nubian king, Piye, in
his 20th year, when the
Egyptian kings submitted to him. Therefore, the dates for
Shoshenq Is first five years as co-regent with Psusennes II are
established for the beginning of the 22nd Dynasty.
The Length of Shoshenq Is Reign Shoshenq I has the distinction
of being the first king to have a Nile flood height
recorded in his reign on the Karnak temple quay wall, but it
refers only to his regnal year
six so of no help in determining his reign length. His tomb has
never been found, nor his
mummy, so his age at death cannot be estimated.
Manethos list of the 22nd Dynasty has a Sesonch(os)is with a
reign of 21 years as its first king, understood to be Shoshenq I.
Kitchen equates Shoshenq Is plundering of Jerusalems temple and
palace in his 20th regnal year with Rehoboam of Judahs fifth year
(1 Kgs 14:2526; 2 Chr 12:112). This synchronism is proven
correct.
Returning to Egypt in his 21st year, Shoshenq celebrated his
victory by
commissioning imposing works at Karnak, especially his great
triumphal relief.38
It is
engraved on the outer wall of a gateway known as the Bubastite
Portal, in the south-east
corner of Shoshenq Is enclosure at Karnak.39 It has a list of 50
cities of Judah and Israel including Megiddo,
40 but Jerusalem is not mentioned in its extant part. Jerusalem
might
37
Kitchen dismisses this date as having any reference to a new
moon (Overview of Fact & Fiction,
167). See Caspersons Table 34.9, ch. 34. p. 479. 38
Kitchen, TIP, 75-76 60, 301-02 260.
39 I.E.S. Edwards, Egypt from the Twenty-Second Dynasty to the
Twenty-Fourth Dynasty, CAH, 545.
40 T.P. Harrison, The Battleground, BAR 29/6 (2003) 30.
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have been named in the original text in the badly damaged Row
IV. Or, because
Jerusalem was not conquered it was not included in the
list.41
The campaign is further attested by a scene at El-Hiba,42
another stela at
Karnak,43
and a stela from Megiddo.44
Referring to Manethos list of 22nd Dynasty kings, Kitchen
writes, The one indisputable datum is the first given: 21 years for
Shoshenq I, directly comparable with the Year 21 of his Silsila
stela ordering the works
at Karnak that were never finished.45 Since the length of
Shoshenq Is reign is disputed,
46 none of the kings have indisputable regnal years! How long
Shoshenq I
reigned after his return from Judah and Israel in his 20th year
remains to be known.
Kitchen & Wente Dispute
Kitchen writes: Late in Year 21 work began in the sandstone
quarries at Gebel Silsila at Karnak, before Pylon II of the great
temple of Amun, a vast court with later colonnades was duly
built along the south face of Pylon II, was engraven the huge
formal triumph-scene of the king smiting his Palestinian foes
before Amun Above all this, a long rhetorical text vaunted the
kings prowess in appropriately traditional termsbut Amun also
compliments Shoshenq on his great building project Next to this
famed scene and list the great gateway now known as the Bubastite
Gate was built engraved in large-scale and highly competent work no
pharaoh had wrought in Karnak on this vast scale for almost four
centuries. Then, suddenly, Shoshenq died. His works were left
practically
all unfinished, his wishes for jubilee-festivals unfulfilled,
and all his grandiose schemes
died with him.47
Kitchens announcement of Shoshenqs sudden death was challenged.
In reviewing the 1973 edition of TIP in 1976, Edward Wente
questioned the 21 years as the
length of Shoshenq Is reign on the basis of the works at Karnak.
He writes, If one examines the masonry of the Bubastite court, he
finds that it is all well dressed
with the exception of stones just adjacent to the existing first
pylon. Similarly the west
wall of the repository temple of Sethos II, just behind the
first pylon, shows very rough
masonry. Such coarse masonry in the court and on the repository
temple is certainly not
the original masonry, and consequently one is not justified in
concluding that Shoshenq I
left the construction of the court incomplete.48
Wente suggests that a first pylon collapsed due to poor
foundations and that it is
the replacement pylon with its rough masonry that is
unfinished.49
But Kitchen re-
affirmed the incomplete state of Shoshenq Is buildings in a 2001
article. He says: The great triumph-scene was the only part to be
completed (or nearly so, depending on
ones interpretation of its kingly figure); the Bubastite Gate
was completely built, but
41
Kitchen, TIP, 298 255 n. 298; idem, Ancient Egyptian Chronology
for Aegeanists in MAA Vol. 2,
No. 2 (2002) 7-8.
42 Ibid.,
. 302 260; idem, Ancient Egyptian, 7.
43 Idem,
, Ancient Egyptian, 7.
44 Idem, TIP, 299 257 and nn. 302, 303; idem, Ancient Egyptian,
7.
45 Ibid.,
450 418, cf. 73-76 58-60, 301-02 260. Kitchen also writes, ...
there is no reason to believe
that he [Shoshenq I] reigned beyond his incomplete 22nd year (73
58). 46
E.F. Wente in a review of Kitchens 1st edition of The Third
Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650
B.C.) in JNES 35 (1976) 276-77.
47 Kitchen, TIP, 301-02 260. See also, Edwards, CAH III/I
(1982), 544-45.
48 Wente, Review of TIP, 277.
49 Ibid., 277.
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only slightly decorated and inscribed; the long colonnades of
the court were merely built
in the rough, and (at the kings death) left rough and never
completed.50
Jubilee Evidence
The length of Shoshenq Is reign was also questioned by Wente due
to the Gebel es-Silsileh inscription (no. 100) which, in addition
to the record that the quarrying for
Shoshenq Is buildings at Karnak began in Shoshenq Is 21st year,
it also has an inscription that indicates that the Karnak court was
built to celebrate a jubilee.
On the west pilaster of the Bubastite portal, an inscription
reads, sp tpy whm hb-sd, which Wente translates as, First occasion
and repetition of the jubilee51 (emphasis added). Wente continues:
Earlier instances of this expression, as distinct from sp tpy (n)
hb-sd, First occasion of the jubilee, indicate that a king had
already celebrated one jubilee and was about to celebrate his
second (emphasis added). Kitchen translates the words similarly as:
first occasion of repeating the jubilee-festival to which he adds
the remainder, may there be made for him many more, like R forever.
The phrase is also repeated on the architrave.
52 Kitchen wrote, in 1986, that this formula
does not indicate a second jubileein contrast to the proper and
well-authenticated formula, whm hbw sd; rather it is merely an
anticipatory formula, without any historical
value,53 so disagreeing with Wentes interpretation. But,
reinforcing his argument, Wente referred to the priest Nakhtefmuts
mummy
found at the Ramesseum having a bandage with a year 33 and
another bandage having a
year three. He says that these should be attributed to Shoshenq
I rather than Osorkon I.
He writes, Since a reference to a second jubilee of Shoshenq I
is found on the Bubastite portal and since The Book of Sothis gives
him a reign of thirty-four years, might not one
assign the Year 33 bandage on Nakhtefmuts mummy to Shoshenq I
and the Year 3 bandage to Osorkon I?54
Wente then suggests that the year three bandage might indicate a
co-regency
between Shoshenq I and Osorkon I and that it might explain the
scenes of Osorkon I on a pilaster of the Bubastite portal that
complement those of Shoshenq I. Beneath Osorkon
Is scenes one reads [whm] hbw-[s]d, Repetition of jubilees.
Wente interprets the lack of space to account for what he assumes
is an aberrant
formula because of the absence, he says, of either sp tpy alone
or sp tpy whm which on monuments regularly introduce the formulas
designating the first and second jubilees
respectively. He suspects that it is merely a wish that he
[Osorkon I] may celebrate many jubilees after the manner of his
father and co-regent.55 Wente attributes to Osorkon I a reign of 12
years, because a year 12 is the highest attested for him,
56 and
assigns 34 years to the reign of Shoshenq I.57
Kitchen, responded in 1986: Furthermore, the tag [whm] hbw-[s]d
apparently applied to Osorkon I ... is the known
specific formula that is actually used for real second jubilees!
This is so for Amenophis
III and especially Ramesses II.58
... As a first jubilee would fall in Year 30, and a second
50
K.A. Kitchen, The Shoshenqs of Egypt and Palestine, JSOT 93
(2001) 8.
51 Wente, Review of TIP, 277.
52 Kitchen, TIP, 302 260 n. 322.
53 Ibid., 544 451.
54 Wente, Review of TIP, 277. The 34 years given in The Book of
Sothis is found in Manetho, 246-47.
55 Ibid., 277.
56 A reference to year 12 found on Nile Level Text 2.
57 Wente, Review of TIP, 278.
58 Kitchen, TIP, 544 451.
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jubilee in Year 33 or 34, this would imply a minimal reign of
32/33 years for Osorkon I,
exactly in accord with the Year 33 bandage, with Manethos 35
years (emended from erroneous 15), and with a group of other
indications for a relatively long reign of
Osorkon I.59
Nakhtefmuts mummy with the bandage having the Year 33 Second Heb
Sed inscription, also had a bracelet that bore the prenomen
Sekhemkheperre, by which one
assumes that the year 33 refers to Osorkon I, and not to
Shoshenq I whose prenomen is
Hedjkheperre. Thus it is almost certain that Osorkon I reigned
for at least 33 years.
However, scholars have recently pointed out that the year three
on the separate
bandage may have been re-used (as was the practice) and have no
bearing on any co-
regency with his successor.60
The allocation of the year 33 on the bandage to Osorkon I, does
not, however,
mean that the reference to the second jubilee on the Bubastite
portal cannot refer to a
reign of Shoshenq I of at least 33/34 years, as the bandage and
the portal have no
connection with each other. Indeed, my chronology shows that
Shoshenq had a jubilee
and its repetition attested by the Bubastite portal, and so did
Osorkon I attested by the
bandage. This is a possibility that neither Kitchens nor Wentes
incorrectly shortened chronology would have suggested to them.
The Book of Sothis,61
referred to above by Wente, gives a list of 86 ancient
Egyptian kings in a very confused order with many kings missing
and others
unidentifiable from those named in Manethos lists. Manetho also
includes dynasties for which no specific names or years of kings
are now recorded.
Names preceding No. 60 in The Book of Sothis have some
similarities to those of
earlier dynasties, especially Manethos 18th, 19th, and 20th
Dynasties. Wente has suggested that Shoshenq I might be the king
Susakeim who was given 34 years. He is
listed as No. 62.
The Book of Sothis
In the list from The Book of Sothis below, Nos. 59, 60, and 61
are listed as the
second, third, and fourth kings of the first Dynasty by Eusebius
and the Armenian with
names and regnal years as shown in Figure 36.2, although
Africanus gives them
alternative years: Athothis 57 years, Kenkenes 31 years, and
Uenephes 23 years. These
are preceded by Menes the first king in Manethos 1st
Dynasty.
59
Ibid., 544 451, see 110-11 89.
60 Sheshonk II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheshonk_II
61 Found at the end of Manethos Aegyptiaca translated by
Waddell. (1940).
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Figure 36.2: List of kings in The Book of Sothis.
But in The Book of Sothis, Athothis is preceded by a Thuoris,
probably indicating
a juncture between the 58 names that precede Athothis, Athothis
himself, and the kings
that succeed him. In Manethos lists, the fifth king is not
Susakeim, but a king called Usaphaidos or Usaphais with 20 years.
This could be a badly transmitted name of the
same man, both having a common usa. Has an S dropped out from
the name in the latter two? However, Susakeim is given 34 years not
20 years. If Susakeim is not to be
identified as belonging to the 1st Dynasty, might he then belong
to the next set of kings
as listed in The Book of Sothis beginning with No. 63:
Psuenus?
The right-hand dynastic allocations have been added. Analysing
the list, it may
be seen that Nos. 6367 refer to some of the kings of the 21st
Dynasty, Nos. 6870 to the 23rd Dynasty, Nos. 7173 to the 22nd
Dynasty (where Concharis may be seen as Shoshenq phonetically
spelled backwards), No. 74 to the 24th Dynasty, Nos. 7577 to the
25th Dynasty, and Nos. 7886 to the 26th Dynasty. A possible
explanation for the order of the dynasties might be that they were
written down from a list with two columns
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across the page, and then copied down vertically from the first
column (say 21st and
23rd Dynasties) before returning to the top to copy down the
second column (say 22nd
and 24th Dynasties). Then the 25th and 26th Dynasties were
copied onto another page.
Since these are the last two dynasties given, whether they were
across the page or down
the page, they would have been copied consecutively.
Nothing to Identify Susakeim with Shoshenq
While these kings do not represent all the kings of the
dynasties, their names
allow them to be attributed to a dynasty. If Susakeim was
another name for Shoshenq I
he is not expected to be placed before the name of Psusennes who
was the second king
of the 21st Dynasty, but in position No. 71, as the first king
of the 22nd Dynasty, a
position now occupied by Concharis, who appears as Shoshenq I
spelt backwards
(phonetically).
This identification is supported by the fact that he is given
the same 21 years as
Sesonchis/Sesonchosis of the 22nd Dynasty by Manetho and
followed by Osorthon (Osorkon) with 15 years, and Tacalophis
(Takeloth) with 13 years. In a chronological
order, the 22nd Dynasty kings, Nos. 7173, should have been
placed between the 21st and 23rd Dynasty kings, Nos. 6367. But this
would still not place Susakeim next to the other 22nd Dynasty
kings. The added note, This king brought up Libyans, Ethiopians,
and Trglodytes before Jerusalem,62 appears to be referring to 2 Chr
12:3, which speaks of Shoshenq (Shishak) bringing with him from
Egypt to Jerusalem Libyans, Sukkiim and Ethiopians.63
However, this is almost certainly a secondary addition as are
various other
annotations found in Manethos lists and one that has been
transmitted to The Book of Sothis.
64 There is nothing to identify Susakeim with Shoshenq I of the
22nd Dynasty.
Equating these two kings or their 34 regnal years is highly
dubious.
The accession of Shoshenq Is son and successor, Osorkon I, must
be anchored before the length of Shoshenq Is reign can be finally
determined.
Osorkon I (Sekhemkheperre Setepenre Osorkon Meryamun)
Osorthon, the second king of Manethos list, is there attributed
15 regnal years. He is identified by scholars as Osorkon I, eldest
son of Shoshenq I and his wife
Karomama, as indicated on the Serapeum stela of the Memphite
priest Pasenhor B.65
The
stela notes Tashedkhons as the mother of Takeloth I, but Osorkon
Is principal wife, Matkare, is not mentioned, nor is her assumed
son, Shoshenq IIa.
Osorkon Is highest known regnal year is year 12 on Nile Level
Text No. 2 (situated to the left of Shoshenq Is Nile Level Text).
Kitchen discusses four lines of evidence for a reign for Osorkon I
longer than 12 or 15 years.
Firstly, Kitchen assigns the 33 years noted on the bandage of
the priest
Nakhtefmut to Osorkon I because the mummy also has braces with a
menat-tab with the
name of Osorkon Sekhemkheperre on it. Kitchen writes, This Year
33 suggests a minimum reign of 32 years and that Manethos figure
should indeed be taken as a corruption of 15 from 35 years.66
62
Ibid., 246-47.
63 For the equivalences in Egyptian see Kitchen, TIP, 295 253
and nn. 290, 291, 292.
64 Note No. 74 in Manethos list (Fig. 36.2), in his reign a lamb
spoke! Manetho, 165, 167. That is not to
imply that all annotations are not original. No. 75 recording
that Bocchoris was burnt alive by Sabacon
(Shabako) may be historical. 65
Kitchen, TIP, 106 85, 292 249.
66 Ibid., 110 89; see Wente, Review of TIP, 277.
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Secondly, Kitchen notes that Iuwelot, son of Osorkon I, and
brother to Shoshenq
IIa, was but a youth in year 10 of Osorkons reign, but had
become a High Priest, army commander, and governor of southern
Upper Egypt in year five of Takelot Is reign. Therefore, Iuwelot
would more likely have been appointed to this responsible
position
when he was 40 rather than 20, indicating a longer reign for
Osorkon I than Manethos 15 years.
Thirdly, the bandage of year three on the mummy of Nakhtefmut
along with the
bandage of year 33 led Kitchen to suggest a three-year
co-regency of Osorkon I and
Shoshenq IIa. On the assumption that Shoshenq IIa was only
co-regent and predeceased
his assumed father Osorkon I aged in his 50sjudging from the
apparent age of his mummy
67Kitchen surmises that, Osorkon I died aged about 70 or more,68
suggesting a longer not a shorter reign for Osorkon I.
Finally, Kitchen argues that the series of Third and Fourth
prophets of Amun, is only easily accommodated within a long reign
of Osorkon I, and would border on the
unrealistic if crammed into a 15-year reign for that king.69 So
Kitchen argues for attributing to Shoshenq I 21 regnal years and to
Osorkon I 35 years emended from
Manethos 15 years. But Wente wanted to attribute [whm] hbw-[s]d,
the repetition of jubilees formula under a scene of Osorkon I on a
pillar of the Bubastite portal, to an anticipatory formula, because
there was no room for the full formula used for first and
second jubilees. He sees this as aberrant, and attributes it to
a co-regency between
Shoshenq I and Osorkon I with the latter hoping to celebrate
many jubilees after the manner of his father and co-regent who was
celebrating his second jubilee.70
But Kitchen writes, The tag [wm] bw sd apparently applied to
Osorkon I is the known specific formula that is actually used for
real second jubilees!71 Yet Kitchen can attribute the formula for
Shoshenq I, sp tpy whm hb-sd First occasion and repetition of the
jubilee as an anticipatory wish, having no independent historical
value, and says it does not indicate a second jubilee!
72 This is patently contradictory.
It seems that the words alone cannot resolve whether these are
celebratory or
anticipatory wishes. The interpretation depends on the bias and
assumptions of the
individual. Kitchen wanted to assign only 21 years to Shoshenq I
and 35 years to
Osorkon I, whereas Wente wanted to assign 34 years to Shoshenq I
and only 12 years to
Osorkon I.
Neither scholar can attribute a jubilee to both kings because
this would put
Shoshenqs accession before the date of 945 BCE (Kitchen) and 948
BCE (Wente)73 and destroy the synchronism with Rehoboams fifth
year, which they date to 925 BCE and 928 BCE, respectively. Yet,
that is a consequence of their incorrectly perceived term of
the early period of the 22nd Dynasty and their erroneous date of
Rehoboams fifth year, which is properly dated to 977 BCE.
Kitchens arguments for a long reign of Osorkon I of 35 years is
20 years longer than the 15 years given him by Manetho, intimating
that the latter number is damaged.
Egyptian numerals are usually written in two rows in a single
line of writing and are read
from right to left.
67
D.E. Derry, Notes on the Remains of Shashanq, ASA 39 (1939)
549-51.
68 Kitchen, TIP, 111 89.
69 Ibid., 111 89.
70 Wente, Review of TIP, 277.
71 Kitchen, TIP, 544 451.
.
72 Ibid., 544 451.
73 Wente, Review of TIP, 276.
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Applying this practice, 15 and 35 would appear in hieroglyphics
as shown in
Figure 36.3.
| | | | | | | | | |
Figure 36.3: Hieroglyphics of 15 and 35.
If the two ten-signs (arches) on the right are broken away,
miscopied, or so
damaged as to be illegible, the number 15 remains. This may have
happened to the
number for Osorkon Is regnal years as seen by Manetho when
recording the dynastic lists from their original display.
If Osorkon Is years can be increased by 20 as claimed by
Kitchen, then cannot Shoshenq Is years be increased also to
accommodate the arguments for a longer reign than 21 years put
forward by Wente? Supposing that Shoshenq Is regnal years were also
deficient by two ten-signs, the number would originally have been
written as 41 (see
Figure 36.4).
|
Figure 36.4: Hieroglyphics of 41 using two additional
ten-signs.
When the two ten-signs were lost, only | would remain: the
number 21. Manethos list provides one other example of regnal
years: the 13 attributed to Takeloth II, first ruler of the later
period of the 22nd Dynasty. Kitchen assigned 25 years to
Takeloth II, his Year 24 noted in The Chronicle of Prince
Osorkon.74
But using the same
application as above, it cannot be seen how 25 could become 13
by eliminating two
ten-signs, but it could become 13 if the original number was 33
(see Figure 36.5).
| | |
Figure 36.5: Hieroglyphics of 33.
Thus, 33 could have become | | | (13). From the examples of
Osorkon I and Takeloth II who could be demonstrated to have reigned
past 15 and 13 years,
respectively, the same may be applied to Shoshenq I.
Reinstating two ten-signs to Shoshenq I would give him 41 regnal
years, a quite
plausible total. Kitchen noted that Late in Year 21 work began
in the sandstone quarries at Gebel Silsila, and that no pharaoh had
wrought in Karnak on this vast scale for almost four centuries.
However, he presumes that Shoshenq I died the following year.
75 Is it not far more credible that the vast amount of
construction took place over
some 20 years (when it hadnt been achieved in the previous 400
years) than to think it all took place in less than a year? From
the above discussion it is feasible to attribute 35
regnal years to Osorkon I, but confirmation is needed.
Priestly Inductions at New Moon
The recently discovered Block Karnak 94, CL 2149 mentions the
date of I mw 13 either in year 11 or year three of Psusennes II.
The favored date is year three, because
it exactly matches the date of a new moon on that date for the
induction of the priest
Nesankhefenmaat.
On the same block is a date for the second and third year of a
king whose name is
damaged but identified as Osorkon I. It refers to an induction
of Hor, the son of
74
Kitchen, TIP, 107 86.
75 See n. 47 above. See also, idem, Strengths and Weaknesses,
296.
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Nesankhefenmaat, into the priesthood on II 3t 14. Other similar
inductions, already mentioned, fall within five days of a new moon,
which implies that this date also comes
within five days of a lunar Day One. If Shoshenq I reigned 41
years from 997/996 BCE,
his reign would end and Osorkon Is begin ca. 958/957 BCE
(depending on the length of Shoshenq Is final year), and his third
year ca. 955/954 BCE (954/953). Casperson provides Table 36.10 for
953.
Table 36.10: Osorkon Is third year 953 (new moon listing for
953)
Thebes; Lat. 25.7, Long. 32.6; visibility coefficients: c1 =
11.5, c2 = 0.008
Julian Gregorian Egyptian DoW ToD Morning visibility
Yr Mo D Yr Mo D Yr Mo D 2 1 0
953 4 29 953 4 20 1829 1 11 3 18:56 5:40 238 5:39 121 5:39
52
953 5 29 953 5 20 1829 2 11 5 8:10 5:21 204 5:21 110 5:20 35
953 6 27 953 6 18 1829 3 10 6 19:29 5:11 288 5:11 171 5:11
78
DoW = day of week; ToD = time of day.
In 953 (954 BCE) there was a new moon on II 3t 11. That date
infers that the induction of Hor took place three days later, at
the end of Osorkon Is third year. If it had been at the beginning,
his first year would have begun in the year 956 BCE, which
would create a gap of about one year between the end of the 41st
year of Shoshenq I
ending in 958 or 957 BCE (again depending on the length of his
final year). A date of IIV prt in Shoshenq Is first year is about
as early as it could be, while keeping IV prt 25 in his fifth
year.
Dates Correlated for Psusennes II, Shoshenq, and Osorkon I
Psusennes IIs 14th year cannot end earlier than III prt 1019
because his 13th year included those dates for the induction of
Nesankhefenmaat. Psusennes IIs 14th year, if beginning soon after
III prt 1019, would begin his 15th year at about the same time as
Shoshenq Is first year, which has to begin before IV prt 25.
Therefore, the accession of Shoshenq I is close to the end of
Psusennes IIs 14th year, and one can speculate that Shoshenq I
began his co-regency on the accession date of Psusennes II
about the beginning of IV prt.
Osorkon Is Accession in 957 BCE and Shoshenq Is Length of Reign
Returning to the reign of Osorkon I, the very latest date for his
third year would
be II 3t 14, the date of the induction of Hor, after which his
fourth year would begin on II 3t 15. Therefore, his accession could
not be earlier than II 3t 15 just over three years previously in
957 BCE. Our foregoing analysis indicates that the accession of
Shoshenq I likely took place in IV prt before day 25 the latter
equating to 20 December
in 998 BCE. Most of Shoshenq Is first year occurred over 997,
and his 20th year in 977 was the same as Rehoboam of Judahs fifth
year.
Shoshenq Is 41st year would have ended in III or IV prt, but his
reign did not end until Osorkon Is accession after III 3t 14, thus
Shoshenq I reigned about six months of his 42nd year. This would
round down to 41 years.
76 Beginning to reign
possibly in the latter half of III prt down to sometime before
IV prt 25, would equate to
mid-November to late December. Shoshenq I may be assigned the
years 998/997 to 957
BCE.
Corroboration of Osorkon Is Accession Year from Bubastis The
accession year of Osorkon I is further confirmed by a list of his
donations at
76
The various 21st and 34th years proposed by scholars for
Shoshenq Is reign do not accommodate a date
of II 3t 14 being near a new moon date on the above
timeframe.
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Bubastis. Redford, seeking to illustrate that regnal years were
counted from a kings accession date and not from the beginning of
the year in the New Kingdom, writes:
This text reviews the list of royal bequests which H. M. gave to
all the temples and shrines of the gods in Upper and Lower Egypt
from regnal year 1, first month day 9 [sic]77
to regnal year 1, fourth month of , day 25, making 3
years, 3 months and 16 days.78
These bequests were made up of handsome gifts of gold and silver
vessels and furnishings upon the temples of the major deities of
Egypt as reported by Kitchen.79 Of particular interest here is the
date I mw 9 for his first year. This year fell in 957 according to
our date for Osorkon Is third year in 954 BCE. Table 36.11 provides
Caspersons lunar table for the year 956.
Table 36.11: Osorkon Is first year 956 (new moon listing from
956 to 955)
Thebes; Lat. 25.7, Long. 32.6; visibility coefficients: c1 =
11.5, c2 = 0.008
Julian Gregorian Egyptian DoW ToD Morning visibility
Yr Mo D Yr Mo D Yr Mo D 2 1 0
956 11 24 956 11 15 1826 8 10 6 9:32 6:37 202 6:38 104 6:38
9
956 12 24 956 12 15 1826 9 10 1 5:27 6:49 172 6:49 72 6:49 19
955 1 22 955 1 13 1826 10 9 2 23:60 6:45 276 6:44 127 6:44 31
DoW = day of week; ToD = time of day.
In 956, the new moon fell on I mw 9, precisely the date given
for the start of the bestowal of the precious gifts, probably
indicating that it was the beginning of an
Amun Tepi Shomu feast, and the bestowal went on for 3 years, 3
months, and 16 daysa magnificent start to Osorkon Is reign!
Presumably, the date was chosen because it was the beginning of
a lunar month,
or the day of the new moon. As noted, the date falls after II 3t
15 of the year 956, possibly about seven months into his first
regnal year. The coincidence of this date
falling on 956 (957 BCE) determined to be Osorkon Is first year
after Shoshenq Is reign of 41 years lends further credence to the
length of the latters reign.
Osorkon Reigned 35 Years
Earlier evidence has supported the fact that Osorkon I achieved
a 30-year reign
marked by a Jubilee, and also the 3 or 4 more years that are
recognized by a repetition of
the Jubilee. It is almost certain that Osorkon I reigned for at
least 33 years, and my
chronology proposes the number as 35 years.
One might object that the priestly office of Hors father,
Nesankhefenmaat, beginning in the third (not 11th) year of the
reign of Psusennes II in 1008 would extend
his incumbency down to 954 BCE, or an unlikely lengthy period of
54 years.
Nesankhefenmaat might have been quite young when inducted. That
may be borne out
by the pontificate of his father, Nesamun, who was inducted into
office in the reign of
Siamun (Block Karnak 94, CL 2149). In the Karnak Priestly
Annals, the father of
Nesankhefenmaat is named as Hori. If Nesamun is the same person
as Hori, then his
induction took place in Siamuns 17th year in 1012. Preceding
Horis/Nesamuns induction his father, Nespaneferhor, was inducted in
year two of Osorchor the Elder in
1035. From these dates we learn that Nespaneferhor officiated
from 1035 to 1012 BCE
77
Redford points out that the copy reads 7, citing H. Gauthier, Le
Livre des rois III (Cairo, 1914) 325
and n. 1. See the following footnote. 78
D.B. Redford, Sais and the Kushite Invasions of the Eighth
Century B.C., JARCE 22 (1985) 5. See
also Kitchen, TIP, 303 262 and n. 326. 79
Kitchen, TIP, 303 262.
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for 23 years, Hori/Nesamun from 1012 to 1008 BCE for 4 years,
and Nesankhefenmaat
from 1008 to 954 BCE for 54 years.
The very short pontificate of Hori/Nesamun compared with the
preceding 24
years and the succeeding 54 years indicates that two generations
cover the latter two
pontificates. The short pontificate of Hori/Nesamun is offset by
the long one of
Nesankhefenmaat implying that the latter must have taken over
the duties when he was
relatively young. Attributing to Nesankhefenmaat a pontificate
of 54 years is not a real
problem.
Shoshenq Is reign contributed 41 years to the first division of
the 22nd Dynasty, from 998/997 to 957 BCE, leaving 84 of the 125
years to be distributed to the remaining
kings. Of these, Osorkon I can be attributed 35 years, 957922
BCE, leaving 4950 years down to the date of 872 BCE.
Shoshenq IIa (Heqakheperre Setepenre Shoshenq Meryamun)
Shoshenq IIa is not mentioned in Manethos list of the 22nd
Dynasty kings, nor is he named on the Pasenhor stela genealogy.
However, he is generally identified as the
first of the three other kings referred to by Africanus. Yet
issues of his identity have been controversial, and due to recency,
are reported, unfortunately, at some length.
At Tanis in 1939, Pierre Montet discovered, in the antechamber
of the tomb of
Psusennes Ithe only unviolated tomb of the 21st Dynastythe mummy
of a Shoshenq Heqakheperre in a silver coffin with a falcons head.
Examination by Douglas Derry of the Cairo Museums Anatomy
Department in 1939 showed evidence of rootlets in the leg bones of
the mummy having penetrated through the damaged end of the
coffin,
suggesting that it had been moved from a waterlogged original
burial site, and reburied
in Psusennes Is tomb. The king had a severe head injury
indicating that he died of massive infection. He
was judged to be in his 50s at death.80
As evidence of the coffins reburial, Dodson confirmed that the
coffin had suffered damage through rough handling in antiquity.81
In the funerary equipment were jewelry and priceless pectorals,
including one of
Shoshenq I before he became king, that is, The great Chief of
the Ma, Chief of Chiefs, Shoshenq, and a couple of bracelets naming
Shoshenq I as king. But the tomb did not have any object naming
Osorkon I.
82 Some scholars consider this strange if Shoshenq II
was the son of Osorkon I. So some suggest that he may have been
the son of Shoshenq
I.83
That would make him a brother or half-brother to Osorkon I.
Kitchen identified this
Shoshenq Heqakheperre as the High Priest of Amun (HPA), Shoshenq
C, son of
Osorkon I and his wife Matkare B, the daughter of Psusennes
II.84
In this case,
Shoshenq Heqakheperre would have been the half-brother of
Takeloth I who was also
the son of Osorkon Iby his second wife, Tashedkhons. Kitchen
notes that Shoshenq C used a cartouche while still High Priest,
indicating
expectations to the throne.85
From the inscription on the rear of the statue of the god
Bes,
he says it was dedicated by the High Priest Harsiese to his
father High Priest Shoshenq
C. Kitchen notes that Harsiese merely called himself son of the
pontiff and army-chief, and Kitchen uses this designation to
support his claim that Shoshenq Hekakheperre (IIa)
80
Derry, Notes on the Remains, 549-51.
81 A. Dodson, The Canopic Equipment Of The Kings Of Egypt
(London: Kegan Paul, 1994) 89.
82 Kitchen, TIP, 117-8 93.
83 J. Dunn, Sheshonq II and the Treasure trove of his
Burial,
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sheshonqii.htm 84
Kitchen, TIP, 117-20 93-4, 195 157, 306 265, 545 452.
85 Ibid., 119 94, 307 265.
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was only a co-regent with his father;86
whereas, if his father had been king, he would
have called himself the son of the king.87
(Harsiese, the High Priest of Amun, is
identified as Harsiese B to distinguish him from Takeloth Is
son, known as Harsiese A, who later became king of Thebes, while
Osorkon II reigned in Tanis.)
Kitchen also sides with the views of several earlier scholars
(Montet, Driorton,
and Vandier) in assuming that Shoshenq II predeceased his
father,88
and therefore could
only have been co-regent, never sole-reign king.89
He also claims that had Shoshenq II
ruled as sole-reign king he would not have been succeeded by
Takeloth I, his half-
brother, but by his son Harsiese.90
Kitchen continued to maintain this position in 2009.
Broekman gave cogent reasons in 2000 and 2001 why Shoshenq
Heqakheperre
should be identified with the HPA Shoshenq C, son of Osorkon and
Matkare B91
(thus
agreeing with Kitchen). For example, Shoshenqs unique prenomen,
Heqakheperre, is based on the model of kings using original names
at the beginning of the 22nd Dynasty,
and not after the reign of Takeloth I when previously used names
were adopted.92
Furthermore, in the funeral equipment of Shoshenq Heqakheperre
were found items such
as bracelets and a pectoral belonging to Shoshenq I and none
that could be dated later.93
Broekman observes that Shoshenq II, as son of Osorkon I of the
22nd Dynasty
and Matkare, his mother, of the 21st Dynasty, was in a strong
position to succeed his
father as king, the female line being considered very important.
Broekman writes,
Especially during the 21st dynasty the high ranking ladies
played a significant role and the maternal line greatly influenced
the succession in the leading positions.94 He had no need to trace
his descent back a further generation to Psusenness II to prove his
claim to
kingship.95
Significantly, in 2001, Broekman pointed out that seven
inscriptions describe the
HPA Shoshenq C as the son of King Osorkon I. Three of them
include the name of the
mother of HPA Shoshenq, Matkare. Two of them name her as
daughter of king
Psusennes II.96
It would be extremely unusual for a Shoshenq and a Matkare to
have
86
In 1975, Helen Jacquet-Gordon questioned Kitchens attribution of
Shoshenq II as the king portrayed on
the Bes statue as the co-regent of Osorkon I, because she noted
that the 1st prophet (High Priest) Harsiese
could only have officiated either while his father was co-regent
or after he had died since they couldnt both be 1st prophet at the
same time. Since he did not call his father king in the Bes statue,
only 1st
prophet, she said it indicated Shoshenq held no pretensions to
the throne and could not have become King
Heqakheperre Shoshenq (H. Jacquet-Gordon, Review of K.A.
Kitchens The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt(1100-650 BC),
Bibliotheca Orientalis 32 [1975] 359). But, in 1995, Karl
Jansen-Winkeln showed that Jacquet-Gordon had misread the Bes
inscription, pointing out that it refers to the HPA
Shoshenq and his son the prophet of Amun, Harsiese (Historische
Probleme der 3. Zwischenheit, JEA 81 [1995] 130, 132). Since the
inscription appears to have been dedicated while Shoshenq was High
Priest,
Shoshenq HPA could have become king later (G.P.F. Broekman,
Shoshenq Makheperre and Shoshenq Heqakheperre, GM 176 [2000]
39).
87 Kitchen, TIP, 119 94.
88 Ibid., 119 94, n. 170.
89 Idem, Overview of Fact & Fiction, 165.
90 Idem, TIP, 119-20 94.
91 Broekman, Shoshenq Makheperre, 39-46; idem, Once More
Shoshenq Heqakheperre, GM 181
(2001) 27-37. 92
Ibid., 40; idem, Once More Shoshenq, 29.
93 Idem, Once More Shoshenq, 29.
94 Ibid., 29.
95 Idem, Shoshenq Makheperre and Shoshenq Heqakheperre, 39-46;
idem, Once More Shoshenq,
28-29.
96 Idem, Once More Shoshenq, 28.
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two sons called Shoshenq, so the conclusion is that HPA Shoshenq
C is Shoshenq
Heqakheperre (Shoshenq II).
Broekmans analysis of shabtis attributable to Shoshenq
Heqakheperre compared with others buried in tombs at Tanis,
indicate Shoshenq Heqakheperre lived in the early
part of the 22nd Dynasty, not in the latter part (noted above).
Shoshenq Heqakheperres silver coffin was found reburied in the tomb
of Psusennes I (NRT III)
97 on a platform in
the vestibule with mummies and funerary equipment of two other
coffins that had
decayed except for their bronze parts, suggesting that the
mummies were of royal
blood.98
Yoyotte had identified them as Siamun on the left of Shoshenq
Heqakheperre,
and Psusennes II on the right.99
Unlike tombs of the 18th to 20th Dynasties made only
for one king, the tombs of the 21st Dynasty were family
tombs.100
In the reburial of
Shoshenq II he was placed with four kings of the 21st Dynasty:
Psusennes I,
Amenemope, Siamun (whose descent is uncertain),101
and Psusennes II; all of Psusennes
Is dynastic successors except Osorkor the Elder, who may have
been buried in a new cemetery.
102
Shoshenq Heqakheperres reburial in a family tomb resembles the
mummies buried later in the family tomb of Osorkon II at Tanis (NRT
I), in which also were laid to
rest Takeloth I (Osorkon IIs father), and Osorkon IIs son,
Harnakht HPA. Dodson suggests that the 21st and 22nd Dynasty kings
down to Takeloth I had previously been in
a new cemeterylocation unknownand that Osorkon II, perhaps to
save them from groundwater problems, had them removed to Tanis,
where he kept Shoshenq II with his
21st Dynasty predecessors, and his (Osorkon IIs) own family of
the 22nd Dynasty not connected to the 21st Dynasty, in his own
family tomb.
103
Shoshenq IIs reburial with 21st Dynasty kings reinforces his
claim to the throne through his presumed mother Matkare, and also
through his presumed father Osorkon I,
and also as grandson of Shoshenq I. Thus Shoshenq IIs burial in
the anteroom of Psusennes Is tomb is consistent with him being the
HPA, son of Osorkon I and Matkare, daughter of Psusennes II.
Broekman concludes that Shoshenq Heqakheperre succeeded Osorkon
I, his
father. After the deep wound to his head from which he appears
to have died, Shoshenq
II was succeeded by Takeloth I, his (presumed) half-brother, son
of Osorkon I by his
lesser wife, Tashedkhons. This conclusion accords with Kitchens
position.
Makheperre Setepenre Shoshenq Meryamun
Scholars discussions about the identity of Shoshenq Heqakheperre
did not rest with Kitchens identity of him as the HPA Shoshenq C,
son of Osorkon I and Matkare, but also involved the identity of a
king whose name was mentioned on an inscription on
the back of the Cairo statue CG 42192. The statue had earlier
been used by Thutmose III.
97
The Royal Tombs at Tanis are designated as NRT-I to VII. The
discoveries were reported in a series of
volumes entitled La ncropole royale de Tanis by Jean Pierre
Marie Montet. Volume 1 was published in
1947. 98
Cited by Broekman, Once More Shoshenq, 34, from J. Yoyotte,
Tanis, Lor des pharaons (Paris:
AFAA, 1987) 48.
99 Broekman, Once More Shoshenq, 34.
100 Ibid., 31-32.
101 Ibid., 33, 34.
102 Ibid., 34; citing Dodson, Some Notes Concerning the Royal
Tombs at Tanis, Cd 63/126 (1988)
229.
103 Ibid., 33; Dodson, Some Notes, 231.
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It speaks of a king who was begotten by a king of Upper and
Lower Egypt,
named Tyetkheperre Setepenre Hor-Pasbakhaenniut Meryamun; that
is, Psusennes II.
Broekman translates: (a work made by the lord of) the strength,
lord of accomplishing benefactions (?), whom Amon himself had
chosen, Makheperre Setepenre, son of Re from his own flesh,
beloved by him, lord of Appearances Shoshenq Meryamun, which his
majesty made as a
monument for his father Amun (?) (after having renewed) its name
on the one who has
begotten him, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, lord of the two
lands, lord of the
ritual, Tyetkheperre Setepenre, the son of Re, lord of
appearances Hor-Pasebakhaenniut
Meryamun, to whom may be given all live [sic], stability and
dominion and all health,
forever like Re (?).104
This inscription makes clear that Makheperre laid claim to the
throne by being
chosen by Amun and begotten of Psusennes II. Prior to 1990, this
Shoshenq had been
identified as Shoshenq I, but then Malte Rmer pointed out that
the king named is
Shoshenq Makheperre spelt with a Ma feather, not Shoshenq
Hedjkheperre (Shoshenq
I) written with a Hedj, white crown sign, which for him
eliminated Shoshenq Imore so because he was not a son of Psusennes
II.
105
Rmer concluded that Heqakheperre found in the tomb of Psusennes
II was the
same as Makheperre of the Cairo statue CG 42192, though he had
to assume that there
had been an error in the writing of the name Makheperre and
Heqakheperre (the latter
having a heqa scepter sign).106
Subsequently, however, because it was thought
improbable that the names had been incorrectly inscribed,
especially unlikely on the
tomb of a king, various scholars concluded that Shoshenq
Heqakheperre and Shoshenq
Makheperre were different individuals, and a new king Shoshenq
Makheperre should
be recognized. His father was assumed to be the HPA Shoshenq C
son of Osorkon I and
Matkare B,107
having Psusennes II as his maternal grandfather.
This identification meant that Shoshenq Heqakheperre could not
also be the son
of Osorkon I and Matkare B as Kitchen had proposed, as it would
mean that the couple
had two sons both named Shoshenq, which was improbable. The fact
that no items
belonging to Osorkon I had been found in the tomb of Shoshenq
Heqakheperre (who was
assumed to have predeceased and been buried by his
fatheraccording to Kitchens assertion that Shoshenq II was
co-regent with Osorkon I), was cited as evidence that
Hekakheperre was not the son of Osorkon I,108
but possibly the son of Shoshenq I since
near his tomb was found a pectoral of the great chief of the Ma,
Shoshenq A, before he
became king, as well as a bracelet naming Shoshenq after he
became king. Since kings
were often buried with objects belonging to their parents, it is
proposed by some scholars
(e.g. Jansen-Winkeln109
) that Shoshenq Hekakheperre was a son of Shoshenq I. This
identification meant a position had to be found for him in the
early 22nd Dynasty where
his unique prenomen Heqakheperre indicated he belonged, because
after Takeloth I there
was no originality in throne names.110
104
Idem, Shoshenq Makheperre, 39.
105 M. Rmer, Varia zu Psusennes II und zur 21. Dynastie, GM 114
(1990) 96.
106 Ibid., 96; cited by Broekman, Shoshenq Makheperre,
39-40.
107 J. von Beckerath, Zur Rckeninschrift der Statuette Kairo CG
42192, Orientalia 63 (1994) 84-87. In
a postscript, he notes the possibility of Shoshenq Heqakheperre
and Shoshenq Makheperre being different
kings; Jansen-Winkeln, Historische, 145-48; N. Dautzenberg,
Bemerkungen zu Schoschenq II., Takeloth II. und Pedubastis II, GM
144 (1995) 21-22. 108
Sheshonk II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshenq_II
109 Jansen-Winkeln, Third Intermediate Period, 237.
110 Dautzenberg, Bemerkungen, 21-22.
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Jrgen von Beckerath suggested that if Makheperre is not the same
as
Heqakheperre, then Heqakheperre might be the son of Takeloth I
having a short reign
before that of Osorkon II.111
Scholars who dont identify Shoshenq Heqakheperre as being the
son of HPA Shoshenq C, and son of Osorkon I, place him two
generations later
as a person whose lineage and right to the throne is
unknown.
Dodsons view that Shoshenq IIs hawk-headed coffin (Cairo JE
72154) was similar to the hawk-headed coffin lid of the granite
tomb of Harsiese (JE 60137) from
Medinet Habu, which was made for Ramesses IIs sister
Henmutmire,112 has been cited as evidence that Shoshenq II and
Harsiese A were contemporaries.
Unfortunately, no burial item of Osorkon I has been
discovered113
by which to
compare them. Items of Shoshenq I found in Shoshenq
Heqakheperres tomb were then explained as heirlooms and not
suggestive of an immediate filial link.
114 But Broekman
believes that if Shoshenq Heqakheperre had been contemporary
with Osorkon II, then
objects belonging to kings later than Shoshenq I would have been
found in his tomb.115
The identity of Shoshenq Makheperre was newly explained by
Broekman in
2000 when he proposed that Shoshenq Makheperre could be the
actual son of
Psusennes II as he claimed on the Cairo Statue CG 42192 in order
to boost his right as
heir to the throne.116
Broekman notes that the name Shoshenq occurs in the 21st
Dynasty
among the ancestors of Psusennes II or his wife.117
Shoshenq Makheperre could claim
his descent from his great-grandparents, Shoshenq A and his wife
Mehtenweskhet, his
grandfather Osorkon the Elder, and his father, Psusennes
II.118
Shoshenq Heqakheperre, on the other hand, could claim his
descent from
Shoshenq A and Mehtenweskhet his great-great-grandparents, his
great-grandfather
Nimlot A, his grandfather Shoshenq B (Shoshenq I), and his
father Osorkon I.119
If
Heqakheperre is Shoshenq II, son of Osorkon I and Matkare, and
succeeded his father,
where and when did Shoshenq Makheperre, presumed son of
Psusennes II, have his
reign, since Psusennes was succeeded by Shoshenq I?
Broekman notes from the Karnak Priestly Annals fragment 4, that
Shoshenq I
was not yet recognized as king in Thebes in his second regnal
year, being called only
Great Chief of the Ma.120 Broekman proposes that it is probable
that Shoshenq Makheperres claim to kingship was supported in
Thebes.121
However, as discussed above, there was a five-year co-regency
between
Psusennes II and Shoshenq I indicating the absence of a son to
succeed Psusennes II, so
Broekmans idea can be set aside. That leaves us with a
Makheperre Shoshenq of no
111
Von Beckerath, Zur Rckeninschrift der Statuette kairo CG 42192,
Orientalia 63 (1994) 87; idem,
Beitrge zur Geschichte der Libyerzeit, GM 144 (1995) 8-9; idem,
Chronologie des Pharaonischen gypten: Die Zeitbestimmung der
gyptischen Geschichte von der Vozeit bus 332 v. Chr. (Mainz:
von
Zabern, 1997) 98. 112
Dodson, Canopic Equipment, 88 and n. 68, 92.
113 Ibid., 89.
114 Sheshonk II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshenq_II
115 Broekman, Shoshenq Makheperre, 40.
116 Ibid., 40-43.
117 Ibid.,
.41.
118 Ibid., 41-44.
119 Ibid., 43-44.
120 Ibid., 42-43.
121 Ibid., 42.
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known origin. The Cairo statue CG 42192 is the sole attestation
of a king with this
name.122
However, he is not the only newly discovered Shoshenq.
Tutkheperre Meryamun Shoshenq
In 2004, Eva Lange suggested the possibility of another hitherto
unidentified
king with the name of Tutkheperre Shoshenq.123
She referred to a damaged lintel
fragment from the Great Temple of Bubastis discovered in 1994 by
an expedition from
the University of Potsdam. The fragment, found in the western
part of the central
courtyard (classification H/3.9), shows the topmost part of a
kings titular, which appears to have originally been six columns,
but with only five now remaining. Column three
contains the prenomen Tutkheperre (twt hpr rcw) in vertical
writing and to its right in
column four, clearly the nomen Shoshenq.
Dodson, who referred to this inscription in 2002, thought that
the Tutkheperre
referred to is Psusennes II who had this prenomen, and the
Shoshenq was his successor, Shoshenq I.
124 But Lange points out that the spelling of the tjt (Tut)
in
Psusennes IIs prenomen is different from the twt spelling in the
lintel. Ascribing them to the one king is problematical. But she
acknowledges that the twt spelling is used in the
prenomen of Psusennes II on the Cairo Statue CG 42192 from
Karnak.125
Assuming that the two cartouches belong to the one person, she
points out that
none of the Shoshenqs IV has the prenomen Tutkheperre. As added
evidence for a new king Tutkheperre Shoshenq, she notes an
inscription first published by E. Amelinau in
18971898.126 The inscription was on a fragment of a receptacle
from Abydos and had two incompletely preserved cartouches one
beginning with the prenomen Tutkheper[re]
and in the other the lower part of the damaged name []amun; that
is, Meryamun. In 1995, M.A. Bonheme examined the ostraca, now in
the Louvre Museum, and
read the same Tutkheperre [Meri]amun written in black ink. He
adds that the ostraca had
been discovered near the 1st Dynasty tomb of Osiris at Abydos
among votive deposits of
varying dates beginning with the New Kingdom (18th Dynasty). It
was assumed that the
writer had mistakenly inscribed the chick symbol for Tut (twt)
instead of the red crown
sign for Hedj as for Hedjkheperre Shoshenq; that is, Shoshenq
I.127
When Yoyotte examined the original fragment, he read in the
lower part of the
damaged cartouche the nomen Shoshenq, thus giving the reading
Tutkheperre Meryamun Shoshenq.
128 Lange emphasizes that these cartouches belong to only
one
king. She refers also to two cartouches having a prenomen and
nomen of a Shoshenq,
which were found earlier on a receptacle from Abydos by E.
Naville, published in
1891.129
Lange suggests that these might also have referred to
Tutkheperre Shoshenq.
She notes the scarcity of attestation. On the advice of K.
Jansen-Winkeln, she suggests
that Tutkheperre Shoshenq reigned in the first half of the 22nd
Dynasty.130
122
Kitchen, Overview of Fact & Fiction, 172. 123
E. Lange, Ein neuer Knig Schoschenk in Bubastis, GM 203 (2004)
65-71.
124 Ibid.,
65 citing A. Dodson, Die Dauer der Dritten ZwischenzeitIII,
Biblische Archologie am
Scheideweg? (eds. P. van der Veen and U. Zerbst; Darmstadt:
Hnssler, 2002) 77. 125
Ibid., 68; see also, von Beckerath, ZurRckeninschrift der
Statuette Kairo CG 42192, Orientalia 63
(1994) 84-87; K. Jansen-Winkeln, Historische, 147. 126
Ibid., 69 citing E. Amelinau, Les nouvelles fouilles dAbydos
(II), 1897-1898, 147. 127
M.A. Bonheme, Les Chechanquides: Qui, Combien?, BSFE 134 (1995)
53-54. See Tutkheperre
Shoshenq, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutkheperre_Shoshenq
128
Lange, Ein neuer Knig Schoschenk, 69.
129 Ibid., 68-69 citing E. Naville, Bubastis (1887-1889), (Egypt
Exploration Fund vol. 8, London: 1891)
46.
130 Ibid., 71.
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Tetley 536
In 2009, Kitchen proposed that Maatkheperre was the name used by
Shoshenq I
in order to adopt a titular style acceptable to the latently
hostile Theban authorities, very soon after his accession.131
Kitchen appeals to the fact that Shoshenq I was still just Great
Chief of the Ma in his year two. Kitchen has not recognized that
Psusennes II had a co-regency with Shoshenq I in the last five
years of his reign, which could account
for the use of his old designation. However, according to
Kitchen, the name
Maatkheperre did not impress the Thebans so Shoshenq I changed
his name from
Maatkheperre to Tyetkheper(u)re, the prenomen of Psusennes II,
to make himself a direct reincarnation.132 However, this gambit
also failed, so Shoshenq I adopted the prenomen Hedjkheperre, that
of Smendes, the founder of the 21st Dynastythe dynasty he was
replacing.
133
Thus, Shoshenq IIb and IIc are none other than Shoshenq I with
prenomens he
used in the early years of his reign to win hearts and influence
people. Kitchen says that Shoshenq I is not known by his prenomen
Hedjkheperre before his fifth year.
134
The elimination of Tutkheperre Shoshenq IIb and Maakheperre
Shoshenq IIc just
leaves Hedjkheperre Shoshenq I and his probable grandson,
Heqakheperre Shoshenq IIa
as kings with the name of Shoshenq in the early period of the
22nd Dynasty.
Shoshenq IIas Length of Reign In the Nile Level Texts, just
above the earliest texts, those of Shoshenq I (No. 1
with year 6) and Osorkon I (No. 2 with year 12), is a text (No.
16) with just the name of
the High Priest Iuwelot and son of